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...population going back to work after the week-end leisure. The population shivered with excitement, devoured the columns. Devouring they found the sentence: "The pilots served in the armies of the Central Powers during the War." The population figuratively and (along the Northeastern coast literally) packed housetops to cheer the oncoming Germans. . . . At 3 p. m. Sunday favorable weather reports sent the word sizzling over Germany that two Junkers monoplanes would start for the U. S. Cornelius Edzard and Johann Risticz, Herman Koehl and Friederich Loose, flyers, sat down to hearty dinners of soup, venison, pork, coffee, wine, beer...
...last week, Filipinos had an opportunity to cheer, to triumph. For word came that President Coolidge himself had suggested that the Islands be taken from the jurisdiction of the War Department, that military control be replaced by civilian control. Along with this news, however, came the saddening information that the President thought that the Department of the Interior would be the logical guardian of the Islanders. This plan did not at all please the Filipinos, who saw; in it a step toward making the Islands perpetually a U. S. territory. Filipinos want to be put under the State Department...
...interest of Spaniards in matters of sport follows the King. Therefore, last week, the presence of King Alfonso at Wimbledon was almost equivalent to a royal cheering section f r the great Spanish net star Señorita Lilli de Alvarez. His Majesty did not cheer, but he watched, animated. She, warmly beautiful, vivacious, and compellingly feminine, came up, last week, in the women's singles finals against Miss Helen Wills. The contrast was between darting flames and scintillating ice. Serious, studious, book-writing, sketch-drawing Helen Wills seemed, in her stiff, skeletonized cap merely efficient. Señorita...
...largest river in Ireland and larger than any in England. . . . An hydroelectric installation is being effected in two stages. With completion of the first stage there will be available in 15 months 90,000,000 horsepower at a cost of $26,000,000, thus ultimately bringing light and cheer into every Free State village of a population above...
...years ago Mr. and Mrs. Smith of Boston and Vicinity went to the movies to cheer news reef pictures of the "boys" off for the trenches and to curse the "Boche" and the "Hun". This week Mr. and Mrs. Smith sat through and obviously enjoyed a moving picture whose here is a German prisoner of war, whose villain is a French officer, whose subject is the mean absurdity of all war and war spirit. "Barbed Wire" is the finest and most complete pictorial indictment of war which has appeared. It must quite frankly be considered "propaganda art." Nevertheless...